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EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIO
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Games
UC Santa CruzSchool of [email protected] October 2007
Michael Mateas
EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIO UC SANTA CRUZ
Game AI : The future of games
As a new medium games are still in their infancy, focused predominantly on physical action
Artificial Intelligence enables games that… Comment on the full range of human
experience through playable simulations of people and social situations
Deeply respond to interaction Radically customize themselves to individual
players
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Return of the King
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American Beauty
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Need story and character AI
Plot structurePlot structure
Tensio
n/C
om
ple
xity
Time
Exposition Incitingincident
Rising action
Crisis
Climax
Falling action
Denouement
CharactersCharacters• Personality• Emotion• Self motivation• Change• Social relationships• Consistency• Illusion of life
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Façade
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Façade architecture
Drama Manager(sequences
beats)Bag of beats
beatbeat
beat
beat
beatbeat
Desired valuearc(s)
Selected beat
History
timePrevious action
beat beat beat beat
Activity not part of a beat
Currentstoryvalues
Player
Story World
TripGrace
Recognizers
Natural Language Processing
surface text
discourse acts
discourse acts
reactions
ABL agents
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Applications
New art and entertainment form
Interpersonal skills training Bedside manner (medical) Management people skills Personal relationships Peacekeeping (“soft” military operations)
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Some projects in EIS
ABL/Wargus: real-time strategy game
Drama Management: automated story management for games
Collapsed Structure Training Game
Game Generation: automatic generation of games
AR-Façade: Augmented-reality version of Façade
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Collapsed Structure Rescue
Working with NASA Ames (DART)
AI research: dynamically generating new training scenarios
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Drama management
Policy for “story piece” selection
An alternative to explicitly coded links
Story library
Selection policy
Actual sequence
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Expressive AI: AI as a medium
Office Plant #1Terminal Time
Façade
